Blacken 1.1.1 has been released. It is a bugfix release because of a critical bug Blacken 1.1 had with Mac OS X support.

Steven Blackyam655@gmail.comblacken111released1https://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/blackenlib/88387474810494977442012-09-25T09:19:08.587Z2012-09-25T20:16:11.285Z2012-09-25T20:16:11.283ZCritical bug found in Mac OS X support

It turns out Blacken 1.1 had a bug that totally broke Mac OS X support.

We've found the source of the issue. We have it fixed in "trunk".

We will be releasing 1.1.1 in the next few days with a fix for it.

Steven Blackyam655@gmail.comcriticalbugfoundinmacosxsupport1https://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/blackenlib/39133417203241092482012-09-12T04:15:08.225Z2012-09-12T04:15:08.231Z2012-09-12T04:15:08.183ZIt's official! We released 1.1!

We've been saying we're releasing for the Annual Roguelike Release Party, but the timer on this site has been counting down to the 1st of next month. We've corrected the timer so that it lists the
15th of September 2012. This is the actual ARRP weekend event. (See: http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php/2012_ARRP).

We're on schedule to make the date. The goal all along had been to aim for the 1st but to expect to slip. Well, real-life interfered with some of the final development. All the core features are in place, but some of the final polish we wanted to get for the JNLP examples has not yet happened.

I (Steven Black) will be taking this Monday off to work exclusively on Blacken and get it in tip-top shape for release. As I said, we don't have much left, we just need to put in the last bit of effort to give it some polish.

I'm slowly bringing up this site, as a user-centered focal point for Blacken.

The Google Code page is great for the developers, but for folks thinking about Blacken -- that's who we want to cater to here.

Steven Blackyam655@gmail.comauser-focusedblackensite3https://sites.google.com/feeds/content/site/blackenlib/11481040045817469782012-07-11T03:12:05.237Z2012-08-19T05:51:28.849Z2012-08-19T05:51:28.341ZProgress is looking good

We look on-track to meet our release goal.

The performance looks great. The keyboard support is improved.

We need more test cases and example applications. That's pretty much it, though.

1. Get the examples to use JNLP / Web Start : the links will go on the user-focused site.

2. Get Blacken 1.1 in to a public Maven repository

Technically, #2 can't happen until we're 100% ready to release Blacken 1.1. Since it will be our first time publishing to a public Maven repository, it may take a few days to iron out completely. This means it is possible that we could miss the release date for this feature, but if we do it should come shortly thereafter.